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Title: Birtcher, Cecil J., residence [Birtcher–Share House]
Creator: Parker, Maynard L., 1900-1976
Contributor: Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-1990, Architect
Weber, Kem, 1889-1963, Furniture Designer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Exterior and interior views of house.
Identified by David Gebhard in An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles as the Birtcher-Share House. House completed in 1942. One image includes a New Yorker magazine dated July 28, 1945. Architectural Forum cites "Justus Birtcher, General Contractor."
"Adroit Handling of Wood Marks This Hilltop House," Architectural Forum, December 1947, 100–103. Lisa Germany, Harwell Hamilton Harris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 92–93 (small photographs at the bottom of pages 92 and 93 misattributed to Fred R. Dapprich). David A. Hanks, American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow (2005).
Type: image
Extent: Number of items: 45 ; Black-and-white negatives (25) ; Color transparencies (3) ; Black-and-white prints (17)
Identifier: photCL MLP 0515
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll5/id/6734
Language: English
Subject: Architecture, Domestic--Photographs
Architecture, Modern--20th century--Photographs
Architecture--Details--Photographs
Private libraries--Photographs
Living rooms--Photographs
Kitchens--Photographs
Dining rooms--Photographs
Bedrooms--Photographs
Outdoor living spaces--Photographs
House furnishings--Photographs
Household electronics--Photographs
Place: Los Angeles, Calif.
Source: Maynard L. Parker negatives, photographs, and other material
Maynard L. Parker Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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